Predicting odour emissions from wastewater treatment plants by means of odour emission factors |
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Authors: | Laura Capelli Selena Sironi Renato Del Rosso Paolo Céntola |
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Affiliation: | Politecnico di Milano, Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”, Olfactometric Laboratory, P.za Leonardo Da Vinci, 32 -20133 Milano, Italy |
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Abstract: | In this study, the results of odour concentration measurements on different wastewater treatment plants are presented and used in order to estimate the odour emission factors relevant to single odour sources. An odour emission factor is a representative value that relates the quantity of odour released to the atmosphere to a specific activity index, which in this case was the plant treatment capacity, resulting in an odour emission factor expressed in odour units per cubic metre of treated sewage. The results show that the major odour source of a wastewater treatment plant is represented by the primary sedimentation (with an OEF equal to 1.9 × 105 ouE m−3). In general, the highest OEFs are observed in correspondence of the first steps of the wastewater depuration cycle (OEF between 1.1 × 104 ouE m−3 and 1.9 × 105 ouE m−3) and tend to decrease along the depuration process (OEF between 7.4 × 103 ouE m−3 and 4.3 × 104 ouE m−3). In general, the OEFs calculated according to this approach represent a model for a rough prediction of odour emissions independently from the specific characteristics of the different plants. |
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Keywords: | Wastewater treatment Specific odour emission rate Odour emission factors Odour prediction |
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